{"id":147447,"date":"2026-10-13T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.daftra.com\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=147447"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:51:17","slug":"what-happens-to-the-cost-center-tree-when-the-contract-is-activated","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/docs.daftra.com\/en\/faq\/what-happens-to-the-cost-center-tree-when-the-contract-is-activated\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens to the Cost Center Tree When the Contract Is Activated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"72\" data-end=\"394\">Once the contract status is changed to <strong data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"123\">\u201cActive\u201d<\/strong>, the System automatically creates a complete cost center tree based on the contract\u2019s tender tree (main tenders, sub tenders, and work items) and the <strong data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"299\">\u201cCost Tracking Level\u201d<\/strong> selected for the project itself. You can review this tree under <strong data-start=\"364\" data-end=\"393\">Accounting \u2192 Cost Centers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"467\"><strong data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"467\">The tree structure varies depending on the selected tracking level:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"1390\">\n<li data-section-id=\"flus\" data-start=\"469\" data-end=\"675\"><strong data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"490\">\u201cProject\u201d Level<\/strong>: No detailed tree is created. The project\u2019s own cost center, which was originally created when the project was created, is used as a single <strong data-start=\"631\" data-end=\"649\">file (account)<\/strong> under the project folder.<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"2gwb4q\" data-start=\"676\" data-end=\"1205\"><strong data-start=\"678\" data-end=\"697\">\u201cTenders\u201d Level<\/strong>: The tree is created so that each main or sub tender appears as a folder, <strong data-start=\"772\" data-end=\"782\">except<\/strong> when that tender directly contains one or more work items without any sub tenders beneath it. In this case, it appears as a <strong data-start=\"907\" data-end=\"925\">file (account)<\/strong> instead of a folder. For example, if a main tender contains successive sub tenders, and the last sub tender directly contains the work items, only that last sub tender appears as a file, while everything above it (the main tender and intermediate sub tenders) remains as folders.<\/li>\n<li data-section-id=\"1bbuilq\" data-start=\"1206\" data-end=\"1390\"><strong data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1229\">\u201cWork Item\u201d Level<\/strong>: All main and sub tenders remain folders without exception, and only the work item itself appears as a <strong data-start=\"1333\" data-end=\"1351\">file (account)<\/strong> at the end of each branch of the tree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"1392\" data-end=\"1561\"><strong data-start=\"1392\" data-end=\"1411\">Important Note:<\/strong> If the project\u2019s parent cost center has been deleted for any reason, it is automatically recreated when the contract\u2019s cost center tree is generated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"template":"","categories":[15599,16736],"tags":[17864,15689,17866,16655,3999,17867,17862,16109,17863,17865],"class_list":["post-147447","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","category-construction","category-contracts-construction","tag-automatically-generate-cost-center-tree","tag-construction","tag-construction-contract-cost-center","tag-contracts","tag-cost-centers","tag-cost-tracking-level-and-resulting-tree","tag-impact-of-contract-activation-on-cost-center-tree","tag-parent-cost-center","tag-recreate-deleted-cost-center","tag-when-is-the-cost-center-tree-created"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Happens to the Cost Center Tree When the Contract Is Activated? - Daftra Knowledge Base<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.daftra.com\/en\/faq\/what-happens-to-the-cost-center-tree-when-the-contract-is-activated\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Happens to the Cost Center Tree When the Contract Is Activated? - Daftra Knowledge Base\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Once the contract status is changed to \u201cActive\u201d, the System automatically creates a complete cost center tree based on the contract\u2019s tender tree (main tenders, sub tenders, and work items) and the \u201cCost Tracking Level\u201d selected for the project itself. 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